USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I

[SOURCES]
What was the Black Hand?

(A) ** an organization the promoted Serbian nationalism

(B) a militant muslim army faction

(C) a secret Italian mafia group

(D) the Balkan Resistance Army

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Unification or Death (Serbian: Ujedinjenje ili smrt, Serbian Cyrillic: ), popularly known as the Black Hand (Serbian: Crna ruka, Serbian Cyrillic: ), was a secret military society formed in 1901 by officers in the Army of the Kingdom of Serbia.

Concept note-2: -Officially known as Unification or Death, the Black Hand was founded by Serbian officers in 1911, with the aim of unifying South Slavs-including Bosnians, Slovenes and Croats in Austria-Hungary-into a Greater Serb or south Slavic (Yugoslav) state.

Concept note-3: -The Black Hand (Unification or Death) was formed by a ring of influential officers of the Serbian army, headed by Dragutin Dimitrijević (1876-1917), known as “Apis”, in May 1911.

Concept note-4: -Born into a Bosnian Serb peasant family, Princip was trained in terrorism by the Serbian secret society known as the Black Hand (true name Ujedinjenje ili Smrt, “Union or Death”).